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I loved "Recipes for Revenge" too -- if you lived through the seventies, that font should fill you with nostalgia and horror.

I didn't start reading "Blue Beetle" until issue 25 so I'm not in a good position to judge: how does the new issue stack up to its predecessors? Is it the same feel and level of quality? Because I like.

Not picky, Dale, just wrong. The man invented an anti-gravity house, for pity's sake.

Well, Jacob, it is an opera cape he's wearing. But the story in which that Toyman appeared was one where the Toyman was heartbroken that he was omitted from a toyline of Superman foes because he wasn't scary enough, so he reinvented himself as a scary, psychotic threat to children, which is how Adam Grant died.

It was a very cool story, and the revelation that that was a robot doesn't really diminish it's impact.

And, given just how many New Gods, Old Gods, Greek Gods, Norse Gods, Space Gods, Elder Gods, and Ancient Aztec Blood Gods have been offed in the floating ten-year continuity window, how in the world can the Lanterns think that 1011's are particularly rare at all?

Well, it's been years and years since I read that first Hec Hammond story; I just remember him as a wealthy guy who exposed four scientists to the evolution meteor and kept them in the basement inventing weapons for him, kind of like Electra Woman and Dyna Girl did with Prof. Heflin.

Concerning Batman R.I.P. so far... is it me, or are they having batman reveal his identity to more and more women lately? Catwoman in Hush was okay, but got retconned pretty quickly if I remember right. but now this person he apparently just met? I need to get the rest of them and find out what this ridiculousness is.

that and I'm a sucker for anything about Thomas Wayne, for some reason.

Ch'p was in Hal Jordan's GL training class? That's hilarious! Especially when the cute little chipmunk gets to tell him "Everyone in the universe knows a Green Lantern's power ring is INEFFECTUAL against YELLOW."

There's still the manner in which women's role are portrayed in comics overall (the iteration of prehistoric times in dr Light's scene). It's like Morrison pastiching Infinite Crisis (gloomy doomed futures, shitty use of 'relevant' in-the-news bits like toys from China and Katrina, crappy irrelevant deaths, Edens of garbage, Question jumping into garbage ferry, muk-muk as muck, "I'm in deep shit" as the overall goldXshit Morrison plays with).

It's a mess of poor storytelling (and even worse storytelling from JG Jones).

And Libra paralleling The Hood somewhat brings some weird resemblance in Manhunter's death to Tigra's beating (a supervillain filming, the character basically with no reaction, Libra being the joiner of villains making promises in exchange of him being on top etc).

Blue Beetle was *even better* in the issues leading up to and culminating in issue #25. You will do yourself a huge favor if you find the collected issues (surely in TPB by now) of the entire run on your next visit to the comic book shop.